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Isaiah 45:71

July 1, 2015

I have so much that I would like to say to you, and so many other family and friends that have jumped on this recent up swelling of fervor directed at eradicating not only the flying of the Southern/Rebel/Confederate (take your pick, or add another) flag, but even almost turning into a lynch mob mentality, the same said people being the same ones that were waving their lighters at Lynyrd Skynyrd, ZZ Top, Molly Hatchet, Allman Brothers, Charlie Daniels, Pure Pararie League, Marshall Tucker Band, and Dixie Dreggs, plus so, so many other Southern Band's concerts,... almost to the point that it sounds like they're going to round up all of the remaining old Southern rockers, hang them from cross shape stakes, and burn them from a giant bonfire made up of all their old albums, that are ladened with all sorts of Southern symbols, and all of the old giant Confederate flag backdrops, and all of the other Southern themed concert paraphernalia. There were a lot of blacks at the concerts that I went to. I even got to witness 3 black guys beating the hell out of 1 white guy, and not a single one of these flag waving Southern rednecks were helping the guy out, even though the whites greatly out numbered the blacks, for some reason, the flag did not send all of the whites into a blind black hating fury.
I have been naive most of my life, and I still can be quite so. I was totally blind to the plight of the black people for the first 15 years of my life, mainly because my Dad was over protective, and I never saw a single black person in any cotton field that I was ever in. All I ever saw in the cotton fields was me, and a whole bunch of other white people.
I grew up loving the rebel flag, not because of my parents, because I don't think that it was ever mentioned. I just developed a sense of pride in being from the South, and I've always thought that it was one of the most beautiful flags in the world. Until I got older, I didn't associate it with anything other than being proud to be from the South. I also don't believe that it is we Southerners holding on to the Old South, as much as it is the northerners have held on to a somewhat rancid smugness, that makes us hold on to the flag to remind us that we weren't always on the same side as those assholes.
Also, there might be some similarities in the reaction to the flags, but making a head to head comparison of the Confederate flag to the Nazi flag, is somewhat of a stretch.

February 27, 2015

January 23, 2015

November 14, 2014

I DO
NOT CONSIDER MYSELF AN ACADEMIC JUST SOMEONE SELF EDUCATED BY PUBLIC
SCHOOLS AND EXPERIENCE OF LIFE AND MY EXPLORATION OF THE NOVELS,
DOCUMENTS, FILMS ETC. OF OUR TIME. I claim the title of Historian, and the accumulated facts and figures I deem reliable, form the basis of my opinions.

The
League of Nations and the United Nations were
and are attempts to end wars of conquest. American hands are not
clean, the Indian reservations are concentration camps formed for
entire nations of people, clearly as advanced as we white 'settlers'
but deemed “in the way”; Hitler made the statement in “Mein Kampf” that he deemed the conquest of eastern territory was akin to
the American (actually U.S.) regard for 'redskin Indians'.

A interesting video I just saw today and don't have a clue of its credence but is well made:

WAR IS A RACKET
by Major general Smedley D. Butler, two time winner of Congressional Medal of Honor

The
Versailles Treaty may have been heavy handed but the sense of
outrage at the treatment of civilians at German hands (and the record
of ruthlessness in WWI by the Wehrmacht is clear,) in the age
of wire serviced newspapers, photographs, motion pictures and radio. Television and now the
internet can potentially make military activities even more transparent to the
public and subject to the judgement and criticisms of that same
public and this is as it should be.

The
hope for economic cooperation is the most important struggle that
exists today, attempts to bleed the foreign people, our own fellow
citizens, remains the same grave moral imperitive today as it did in
Grandfather Franklin Delano Roosevelt's day; recent blogging to
denigrate this titan of a man and the effect his administration had
on his fellow citizens is the same left vs. right and vice vrsa
horseshit that does not accept
the truth of the senses, those days are over; there is no dedicated
ideological movement to transform or overthrow our constitutional
form we live in. Think on that. The organized movement abroad to
reinstate the caliphate of former days by fractional numbers of
Muslim humanity has been the danger we face today, the beheading
purposely presented to the public—the plotting of terror, I have
read is the tactic of the impotent. The need for understanding,
respect for one another, and acceptance of difference is still
important. The welfare state is over, Obamacare is run by private
corporations, it is the attempt to make medical care available in a
sensible nuts and bolts method instead of making the insured minority
pay for the uninsured majority which bancrupted GM. Can we eliminate
greed, or can we just see how we are formed and fitted together alike
by nature and the almighty; is “the rich get richer and the poor
get poorer” an in escapable destiny beyond human ingenuity to
solve?

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RFK

About Me

I grew up in Southfield, Michigan, it peers across Eight Mile Rd. on it's NW side. My father ran one of the busiest delicatessens in town, Chicago style corned beef sandwiches flying out the door every lunch, the HIGH School was across the street at Ten Mile and Lahser. The dude that washed dishes for him remains the best weed contact I've ever had—Cliff—fair and dependable!

I went from SHS to the Navy and served and uneventful hitch on land in Florida, I'm not sure what I missed never going to the fleet , but the nation was war weary after VietNam, in 1978 and we had us a good Christian man in the White House. I joined because I was on my own many of my friends were going away to University and I didn't want to appear like I didn't have my shit together too. it was not for adventure, merely a disappearance and the luck of my birth kept me far from danger.

Detroit was impacted by the high prime interest rates ordered by the Fed.Few buy new wheels when APR is 18%. The Reagan years brought on cynicism, my own sense of class conscienceness and I saw that war and oppression can be waged with a pencil.